Topic: Diplomacy

When history demanded courage rather than description, he chose cowardice.

Lines drawn along religious faultlines never stay politely on the map but instead run through families, economies, and elections on both sides.

Humanity has faltered badly in adopting the precepts of peace and non-violence, despite all evidence that this is the most important factor for reducing distress.

If Kushner’s answer to Gaza is another real-estate deal, perhaps the most constructive role America can offer him is to keep him away from the negotiating table and safely at home, where he can sell buildings without attempting to sell a people’s future.
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A strong, unbiased, and continuous peace movement is essential to influence policy, prevent wars, and achieve justice-based global peace.

Until that final deal is reached, what exists is a ceasefire arrangement with an attached incentive structure, not a resolved peace.

In any case peace is much more important than who won or who lost.

While Washington and Tel Aviv pursue catastrophic regime change in Tehran, India’s economic survival and the safety of millions of diaspora workers in the Gulf hang in the balance.